RE: What do you think about Youtube atheist?
July 12, 2014 at 8:55 pm
(This post was last modified: July 12, 2014 at 8:59 pm by Polaris.)
(July 12, 2014 at 8:50 pm)Jenny A Wrote:(July 12, 2014 at 8:31 pm)Polaris Wrote: The dumbest theists don't use the internet. That's too advanced for them.
I see you fail at history just the same as you fail at logic. The Christian Church regained power (and then gained ever more power) when it was propped up to counter the threat of Islam in the 8th century CE.
Um and just when do you think the middle ages happened Polaris? The usual dates are from about the 400s to the 1600. So if Christianity dominated Europe from the 700s onwards, then it would be mostly Christian right? --- Though actually it began dominating those parts of Europe outside Rome and the Middle East between 200 and 400 CE depending in where in Europe you're talking about and only lost the Middle East to Islam in the 700s.
The Christian Church faltered when the Roman Empire fell. When the Holy Roman Empire was instituted, it regained its clout. It's a faith that barely survives unless it is the state religion of an empire (or an entity closely resembling an empire). The barbarians tended to stick to their own religions (there were a few of them who were Christian) and it was they who ruled Europe after the fall of the the Roman Empire....they gradually converted over the course of the next couple centuries until 732 CE when their world changed.
The definition of the Dark Ages that commingles the term with the Middle Ages is almost as outdated as breakthroughs from the Middle Ages itself and is based upon piss poor historical recounting from the Italians.
But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, purifies us from all sin.